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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Veldt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whose perspective is the story told?
(a) George Hadley’s
(b) Peter Hadley’s
(c) Lydia Hadley’s
(d) David McClean’s

2. How many children are there in the family?
(a) Three
(b) Two
(c) One
(d) Four

3. This is an example of what type of figurative language: “…and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry…”?
(a) Alliteration
(b) A metaphor
(c) A simile
(d) Personification

4. Who thinks Wendy changed the nursery from a veldt to a forest?
(a) Peter
(b) David
(c) Both George and Lydia
(d) Ruby

5. What is the nursery a reflection of?
(a) The good things in society
(b) The children’s psyches
(c) Books the children read
(d) The bad things in society

Short Answer Questions

1. What is supposed to help the children “work off their neuroses in a healthful way”?

2. What does the nursery transform into as George and Lydia are inspecting it?

3. What has just been eating in the nursery?

4. The following morning, what does Peter ask his father?

5. What does George offer David McClean?

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